Literally had to mute a guy in discord who had us as a captive audience in a raid. Listened politely for the first few minutes but I couldn’t concentrate after a while on the game I was there to play. Dude was obsessed with AI.
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Who wants to hear me talk about parrots?
Other options:
- cameras and how they work
- accounting
- games made by Remedy Entertainment
- Smash Mouth
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Now let's talk about LED displays. Can we talk about LED displays, please, Mac? I've been dying to talk about LED displays with you all day, OK? "Charlieplexing" this name keeps coming up over and over again. Every day Charlieplexing is getting sent back to me. Charlieplexing! Charlieplexing! I look in the LED display, and this whole pinset is Charlieplexed! So I say to myself, "I gotta find this protocol! I go to wikipedia and to look up how to connect to the LED display with my goddamn hands! Otherwise, I'm never going to get this LED working and I'm going to keep coming back to this same display." So I go to the Charlieplexing page and what do I find out, Mac? What do I find out?! There is no Charlieplexing. It's not even real protocol, okay? So I decide, "Oh shit, buddy, I gotta dig a little deeper." There's no Charlieplexing? You gotta be kidding me! I got whole boxes full of LED displays! All right. So I start marchin' my way through the voltages on my multimeter and I tap the contact pins on the board and I say, "Vooltage.... vooolltage! I gotta talk to you about Charlieplexing." And when I test the contact pins what do I find? There's not a single goddamn line of continuity on that board! There...are...no...Voltages on the board. Mac, half the pins on the chip go straight to earth. This circuit is a goddamn ghost town!
Ok...
Do you think Jesse's body will be used as resonance source for the HRAs when she dies? Similarly to how Northmoor is being used as heat source.
Do you think Alan is Sam's self insert and that he feels haunted by Max Paine just like Alan is haunted by Casey?
Oooooh these are great questions! I am currently at work and will have to give this more attention later - I will edit my comment this evening once I have thought about it!
I choose parrots. Do you have a favorite species? What are your thoughts on the pet trade and hybrids? There are wild parrots where I live (Los Angeles, mostly Amazons) and I always love hearing them, even though it drives other people crazy. A few weeks ago while I was volunteering at the native plant garden a flock of about 40 or so flew over us, screaming their heads off, it was great!
My favourite are cockatoos since I grew up with one! Grew up with a lesser sulphur-crested (the kind from Indonesia) my fave cockatoo though is the Moluccan just because they are so extremely boisterous - I can relate haha 😅
As for pet trade, I mean, I have very limited knowledge on it, but from what I do know it is awfully exploitative, and with parrots not actually being domesticated, the ethics of the pet trade are dubious at best.
I absolutely love Amazons, I wish we had parrots where I am. The closest thing we have here are various corvids, which also have a place in my heart. :)
Cockatoos are very cool! I can’t imagine having to care for one with how needy and long-lived they are, though. And Amazons have so much personality! Earlier this week I was waiting at the bus stop in some light rain, and a pair of Amazons flew in absolutely screaming, then flew in gleeful, screaming circles about a half dozen times before they landed on a nearby tree and screamed some more. We only get rain like 3 months a year here so I think they were just thrilled about it 😁
this is me preparing to give a community talk on birding at my library, hoping my neurodivergent queer friend group finally coalesces.
I like that he found a map of China with the legend “Tibet” so he could point to Tibet. Finding good wall maps took real commitment in those days.
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